By Rachel Silvera The sound of courage, the sound of freedom are celebrated in the new issue of Pagine Ebraiche. January’s special section is devoted to the orchestra conductor Arturo Toscanini. Famous worldwide, Toscanini refused to lean to Fascist dictatorship and in 1936 he agreed to direct the opening concert of the Israeli Philharmonic (founded …
By Ada Treves Pippi Longstocking’s braids have turned into brushes in the cover by Luisa Valenti, an animage that captures the spirit of DafDaf number 63. Sixteen pages of books, music, ideas, projects and a great desire to smile and play, together with the capacity to take some risks, without forgetting history and traditions, but …
By Rachel Silvera Pagine Ebraiche celebrates a year of courage. A few weeks after the terrorist attacks of November 13 and almost a year from the assaults on Charlie Hebdo and Hyercacher, the December issue of Pagine Ebraicha is devoted to France and its values. Inside this issue readers will find many opinions on the …
By Ada Treves The cover of the November issue of DafDaf is an explicit homage to yet another success of a friend of the Jewish magazine for kids: the image, in fact, is from “La voliera d’oro”, published in Italy by Topipittori. Anna Castagnoli is the author of a beautiful story about a mysterious and …
By Rachel Silvera The new issue of Pagine Ebraiche features many heroes. The special section, devoted to Comics & Jews is edited by Ada Treves. It introduces the readers to people like Joann Sfar, the cartoonist of “The Rabbi’s Cat”, but also Saul Steinberg, who lived in Bucharest, Milan and America. The paper then covers …
By Ada Treves Nostalgia is the opening theme of the October issue of DafDaf, the Jewish magazine for kids, where the long Summer days are the subject of Luisa Valenti’s illustration for the cover. But sadness is not destined to last long: in the first pages Maria Teresa Milani explains the story of a song …
By Rossella Tercatin Fifteen Italian rabbis explain their hopes and wishes for the new Jewish year in the October issue of Pagine Ebraiche. The President of the Italian Rabbinical Assembly, rav Giuseppe Momigliano, pointed out his concern for “the situations of suffering and crisis on many fronts”. He wishes Italian Jews to reflect, pray, rediscover …
By Rachel Silvera The September issue of Pagine Ebraiche looks back at the year 5775, which is about to end (Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New year falls on September 13). 5775 has been a difficult year, marked by bloody terrorist attacks, political turmoil and the loss of some notables of Italian Jewry. But there have …
By Roberta Bridda* In the Summer, every year, the pages of DafDaf are particularly playful, and this month the Jewish magazine for kids has received an unexpected gift: Roberta Bridda, an Italian illustrator who lives and works in Barcelona has offered to the newsroom some of her beautiful characters, that she chose to present herself, …
By Ada Treves A cover as fresh as sea waters opens DafDaf, the third and last number of the summer series. The illustration, as usual by Luisa Valenti, has been thought out to give kids the possibility to complete the two white shapes, or to cut it out and use it for their non-homework notebook, …
By Rachel Silvera The August issue of Pagine Ebraiche opens with a focus on education. The Italian Minister of Education, University and Research Stefania Giannini visited Israel accompanied by the president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities Renzo Gattegna. Moreover, the Ministry of Education has created a new committee for religious pluralism in public …
By Ada Treves The smile of five students in Trieste, last week, marked the success of the new project launched by the newsroom of the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities. Five are in fact the candidates for the internship organized by Pagine Ebraiche together with the Scuola Superiore di Lingue Moderne per Interpreti e …
By Ada Treves Summer, holidays, vacation… long days to fill. So, young readers, fill your sketch-book with ideas and colours, it will be a joy and a thing of beauty. That is the idea conveyed by the cover of the new issue of DafDaf, the Jewish magazine for kids. Number 58 is the second issue …
By Rachel Silvera The July issue of Pagine Ebraiche was published at the end of last week. The monthly Special section is devoted to magic in the Jewish perspective, from the Golem to Harry Potter. Inside the section, professor Gideon Bohak explains the exhibition, “Magie. Anges et démons dans la tradition Juive”, now open at …
By Rachel Silvera On June 14, the Jewish Community of Rome will go to the polls with four presidential candidates, three of them women. The June edition of Pagine Ebraiche offers a special preview with programs, goals and ideas of Ruth Dureghello (the leader of ‘Per Israele’ list), Maurizio Tagliacozzo (Menorah), Claudia Fellus (Binah) and …
By Rachel Silvera The new issue of Pagine Ebraiche is dedicated to the late Rabbi Elio Toaff, one of the most important rabbis of Italian Jewry, who passed away few weeks ago. Pagine Ebraiche collected some of the memories of his former students (many of them currently rabbanim of Italian Jewish Communities), as well as …
By Ada Treves Readers of DafDaf know that Spring is the season when the pages of the Jewish magazine for kids are devoted to books, with even more attention than normal. Not only the regular pages by the writer Nadia Terranova, not only news, in May any excuse is valid to give more space to …
By Rachel Silvera New elections in Israel and also in the Jewish Community of Turin and Milan: the April issue of Pagine Ebraiche is currently available and gives readers news and insights about the wind of change that has brought thousands to the polls, redesigning a new future for Israel and for the two largest …
By Ada Treves “I think it’s clear: a book is like a seed, and it creates many readers.” It was a few weeks ago when Luisa Valenti wrote these words about her cover for DafDaf, the Jewish magazine for kids. A very special issue, with many pages devoted to books and readers, to honour the …